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Quotes About Streetcar

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?
~ Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
You can take the streetcar from Canal Street and go all the way uptown on this beautiful tree lined avenue that's home to some of New Orleans' most elegant houses and neighborhoods. You'll pass the Garden District and Washington Avenue where you'll find Commander's Palace two blocks toward the river.
~ Richard Bienvenu
In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown "Loop," named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines.
~ Erik Larson
I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on a Spanish streetcar.
~ B. F. Skinner
Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.
~ Chevy Chase
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
~ Tennessee Williams
I have just been cut in half by a streetcar at Patriarch's. Funeral Friday 3PM. Come. Berlioz
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
it never happened but it seemed like there were times when rot stopped waited like a streetcar at a signal.
~ Charles Bukowski
From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began to fall in love he tried to tell women about this, but they did not understand him, for which he revenged himself by speaking to them in a wild, bombastic birdy language and exclusively about the loftiest matters.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Had I missed feeling joy? Surprise? Suddenly the joy came. And even surprise arrived, late as usual. A miracle! If miracles could happen, this was one. And who says we weren't ready for it and met it inappropriately, with broken phrases? We stood at the streetcar stop and began to laugh.
~ Christa Wolf
Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
As I gushed earlier, the movie of Streetcar is for me total artistic perfection.
~ Woody Allen
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.
~ Harry Houdini
I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming.
~ Jim Thompson
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
~ Tennessee Williams